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Title: Los Angeles, the old and the new;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Publisher: (Los Angeles, Times-Mirror ptg. & bdg. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and barracuda, but the mostfamous of all, and the one that is most highlyprized by the expert angler, is the tuna, one ofthe most gamy fishes that swims the waters ofany ocean. This fish is only caught during-the summer months. There is a tuna club atCatalina, which g-ives prizes for every fishcaught under fair conditions, with rod andreel. It is no slig-ht task to land one of thesetigers of the deep. They have been known totow a boat with two men in it for overtwelve hours. The largest tuna caught withrod and reel at Catalina weighed a little over250 pounds. The average weight of thesixty-one caught last season was 119/^pounds. Another monster of the deep that is takenwith rod and reel at Catalina, although itseems an almost impossible feat, is the blacksea bass or Jew fish, of one of which apicture is given on the opposite page. Thiswas caught last season by a plucky woman,Mrs. A. W. Barrett. It w^eighed 416 pounds.The original fish may be seen at the LosAngeles Chamber of Commerce.
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CAMPING NEAR THE SKY. IE have no pretentious hostleries on themountain peaks of Southern California,such as ma)^ be found in Switzerland,and in some parts of the East. Those willundoubtedl)^ come in time, as the attractionsof our mountain re-sorts are better realizedand appreciated b)^ visitors as well as our ownpeople. At present, there is no crying- de-mand for such enterprises on the part of resi-dents. Your true Californian, when he de-cides to tear himself away for a time fromoffice, or factory, or workshop, wants to getas far away as possible from big- buildings,and sidewalks, and street cars, and other con-comitants of modern civilization. He likesto put on his oldest clothes, and not too man)^of them, provided a couple of warm blankets-are carried for covering at night. Thus at-tired, and provided with a stock of indispen-sable eatables and drinkables (in the selectionof which it is not necessary to be too nice, fopthe mountain air g-ives a tremendous naturalappetite) and taki

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